. . . >> I find a lot of references, for example, to BAYES_99 in >> /usr/share/spamassassin/blah.cf. I certainly don't know if these would >> override the setting in /etc/mail/spamassassin/local.cf. > > Local settings should override standard settings, so no.
OK. That's what I thought. However, lint shows it "reading" /etc/mail/spamassassing/local.cf near the top of lint output and all the others, "further down", which suggests it is reading them after. Perhaps that is a poor conclusion. > /usr/share/spamassassin is the base install directory. There is another > directory that sa-update populates that is read after the base directory. > Then the local configs are read. Last one read, wins. > > "spamassassin --lint -D" should output all the directories being used; you > can use the same command-line options given to spamd to configure > "spamassin --lint -D" the same way Since both the root user (me) and the defined spam user (whose name I do see in logs) use /etc/spamassassin/local.cf (per lint), is that still worth trying? joe a. > John Hardin KA7OHZ http://www.impsec.org/~jhardin/ > jhar...@impsec.org FALaholic #11174 pgpk -a jhar...@impsec.org > key: 0xB8732E79 -- 2D8C 34F4 6411 F507 136C AF76 D822 E6E6 B873 2E79 > ----------------------------------------------------------------------- > Yet another example of a Mexican doing a job Americans are > unwilling to do. -- Reno Sepulveda, on UniVision reporters asking > President Obama some pointed questions about > the BATFE Fast and Furious scandal. > ----------------------------------------------------------------------- > 3 days until the 1934th anniversary of the destruction of Pompeii
